While most of the posts on here are written by me, Ronnie Hughes, some of the best appreciated are written by my partner Sarah Horton. And are not about the walking and Liverpool and the meaning of life and society that mostly concern me, but often about the straightforward joy, and sometimes bravery, of sea kayaking. Also about her travels, often on her own, and the insights these bring her. Together with her gardening, horticulture and her fascination with what grows in the littoral, the edges of the land and sea.
So read on here, for sea kayaking and much more, letters from Sarah:
Posts about sea kayaking:
- May 16: A very small craft on a very big ocean
- May 16: Shopping for kit
- July 16: Sea Kayaking: The Swellies
- July 16: In Cornwall: Out on the open sea
- Aug 16: Sea Kayaking with Seals
- Sept 16: The ‘Missing Years’ and the importance of sea kayaking
- Nov 16: Sea kayaking, six months in
- Jan 17: Out to sea in my own boat
- March 17: The Marshlands by boat
- March 17: North Stack, Anglesey
- May 17: Inner workings
- May 17: Four days that weren’t
- June 17: Off Mull: Silver seas and golden skies
- June 17: Challenging is the new normal
- Aug 17: Seals and Swell
- Sept 17: Exploring the littoral
- June 18: The Long Light and The Deep Quiet
- June 18: Stacks and Skerries
- August 18: Exploring the littoral since 1966
- September 18: Life is short, Happy Birthday to me
- November 18: Mind the Gap
Other posts about gardening, the natural world, slow travel, walking and other musings:
- Dec 12: The Dartington Experiment
- Jan 13: Pollen loads of the honey bee
- Feb 13: Remembering George Henry Lee
- Sept 13: Me and my 2CVs
- Mar 14: Walking Women: Northumberland
- Mar 14: The promise – the return of spring
- Sept 14: Walking Women: South
- Oct 14: Mr Roscoe’s garden – the lost botanic gardens of Liverpool
- Feb 15: I remember you – remembering my friend Rachel
- Nov 15: Enchanted Westonbirt
- Sept 15: Walking in Bath: Just peace
- Sept 15: East of Hull: Keeping Spurn wild
- Aug 16: To Auschwitz (by train)
- Aug 16: Slow travel, Auschwitz part two
- Nov 16: Perfect days on the Gower
- Feb 17: Ten Years – reflecting on ten years from breast cancer diagnosis
- Sept 17: To get to here: Knoydart and the Hebrides
- Oct 17: Sarah’s Hands and Gloves – and treatment for Dupuytrons contracture
- Oct 17: A Tale of Two Ducts, Pontcysyllte aqueduct and Cefn Brchan viaduct
- Nov 17: Clearing: Less not more
